Google search not fit for businesses
Google search not fit for businesses
Google's new free search application for the desktop has been described as a consumer product which does not have the ability to meet business demands by ISYS, which offers its own search software for the desktop for a fee.
Google's new search application uses the same algorithms used on the Internet to find information with ease. It can be used offline to search the hard drives, but can also merge with the online search engine too.
ISYS's desktop search engine enables users to search corporate and individual data as easily as they search the web. Simply by entering key words into ISYS, users can retrieve and browse all types of documents containing the information they seek - PDF, email, attachments, Microsoft Office files, HTML, databases, web sites, legacy formats and many more.
ISYS provides organisations with a single, immediate view into the many disparate sources of information that make up their knowledge base, via desktop, network or web-based applications.
Ian Davies, the managing director of ISYS, explained that although the Google Desktop Search Engine is free, this is not enough to persuade business users to adopt the newly released Google Desktop search tool."Our search engine is much more sophisticated than both Google search engines, which are the free Google Desktop search tool and the Google Search Appliance - which is a hardware and software kit sold to business users. The problem is that neither of these search engines offers the level of sophistication, security and range of functionality that our search engine offers.
"For instance, they do not have a taxonomy feature, a user controllable thesaurus, and they do not support formats such as Adobe PDF, Lotus Notes, SQL databases and email attachments. In addition, there is not a growth path for Google's two search engines, unlike ours, so you can't make transitions between the two different systems, as you can our two products: ISYS Desktop Search Engine and ISYS for Intranet Search Engine."
Davies also said that the Google Desktop Search engine is not very good at supporting network support either. He said that business users share information and need to be able to index and search that information, but Google only allows the indexing of networked files if they are opened first, and doesn't allow for shared indexes.
That means each user needs to index the data on their own PC, which is very memory intensive and time consuming. Davies added that this make it unrealistic to include many networked files into Google Desktop.
"Power users, such as those in the law enforcement, intelligence, legal and recruitment industries, rely on absolute accuracy, as well as flexibility in structuring queries; these critical elements are not apparent in the Google desktop software."
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